Did you read the article? It cites the METR study[1] which showed that while people using AI tools to program report feeling like they are producing more, they are in fact producing about 20% less than without the tools.
Ironically you could get the same effect and save compute fees by simply having programmers stay home one day a week.
That study is straight out of the school that measures productivity in kLOC. Completely worthless except as fuel for Internet arguments and poorly-informed policymaking.
But whether $THING should be adopted and whether it does increase long-term productivity is nowhere near as clear-cut.